Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach

William & Lynne Jolitz

Started open source UNIX.

Appeared in part as a 17 article magazine series in 1991-1992.

Documented the "how, what, why, who, when" of porting BSD to the 386.

Done while BSD was becoming "open source".

Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach - interrupt routine

interrupt routine:

Interrupt Handling

We coded specialized trap handlers for interrupt traps, as these were initimate with the systems interrupt control hardware, not part of the processor.